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10 August 1883. Browning, Robert to Williams, John Daniel.

10 August 1883. Browning, Robert to Williams, John Daniel.

19, Warwick Crescent, W.
Aug. 10. ’83.
Dear Mr Williams,
My best answer to Furnivall’s conjectures “evolved out of his self-consciousness” will be, what I meditate—(pray keep my secret!)—a volume of “Seria” with some such motto as Hadrian’s “Nec ut soles dabis jocos.”
I am so sorry that Robert will not be in Dinant, after all! My Sister will have told you. I have somehow affected (not to say absolutely sprained) my thumb, and write with difficulty, or more that is in my mind would be out of it.
You know about Mr Shapira’s pieces of leather with portions of

19, Warwick Crescent, W.
Aug. 10. ’83.
Dear Mr Williams,
My best answer to Furnivall’s conjectures “evolved out of his self-consciousness” will be, what I meditate—(pray keep my secret!)—a volume of “Seria” with some such motto as Hadrian’s “Nec ut soles dabis jocos.”
I am so sorry that Robert will not be in Dinant, after all! My Sister will have told you. I have somehow affected (not to say absolutely sprained) my thumb, and write with difficulty, or more that is in my mind would be out of it.
You know about Mr Shapira’s pieces of leather with portions of